Marquette Wire

UWM travels the globe for restorated movie series

Lydia Cox • September 11, 2003

According to Luke Sieczek, program manager for Union Theatre, the decision was made last semester to start showing strictly 35mm prints on Wednesday and Thursday nights. In the past, those nights were reserved for theme-oriented programs. Now, the new...

Guerilla book fuels feminism

Tim Cigelske • September 11, 2003

The book is written by an anonymous group of women activists and artists who don gorilla masks and take the names of famous dead women. The group burst on the New York scene in 1985 with billboards suggesting that posing nude for a painting was the only...

Young updates old message

Todd Lazarski • September 11, 2003

Building an epic tale around the fictitious Green family in imaginary Greendale, Calif., Young crafts an intricately woven storyline throughout each tune on the album. Using simple country-folk dialect and the cadence of a story-teller, Young sounds like...

MUSG Weekend Movies

Tim Horneman • September 11, 2003

Last year, movies were shown on Friday nights only. This year, movies are shown at 8 p.m. on Fridays and 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Saturdays. All showings are at the Varsity Theatre and cost $2 with a valid Marquette Card and $3 without.
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Hog heaven

faiza.yunus@marquette.edu • September 2, 2003

Harley lovers from around the world are turning their attention — and wheels — toward Milwaukee this week, and both museums are expecting heavy turnouts from people anxious to learn about the origins of the company that put them in hog heaven....

Ordinary man gives life to splendid film

Tim Cigelske • August 28, 2003

Pekar's fashion sense consists of a back hair-revealing wifebeater and mustard-colored Daisy Dukes, which he wears while cutting his toenails in bed.
He trolls the supermarket with a permanent scowl branded on his face in search of canned goods, namely a...

Jazzy life made brighter at home

Tim Cigelske • August 28, 2003

The movie follows the story of Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) and Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a pair of killers looking for the fame and Chicago nightclub careers that can come with murder. Over the course of a jail term and lawyer Billy Flynn's...